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Bilawal’s latest announcement may have disappointed Maryam and JUI-F

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Salahuddin Haider

WAY back in 1989, an intended no-confidence move had failed against the then prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Today his party’s arch rival Imran Khan seems to have finally appeared to have won half the battle with the laying bare of cards by third generation PPP leader, Bilawal Bhutto.
Imran and his colleagues may have been feeling happier than before but the crisis is far from over. It is continuing and may take a different shape or fix new goals for its campaign against PTI government. Whether it achieves its objective or fritters its energies away in weeks of months to come, time alone can tell. Straws in the wind however have been giving altogether different indications. They need to be on guard, for any complacency may cost them heavily,
Arrest of opposition leader in the National Assembly, Khawaja Asif on Dec 29, was a huge shock to PML(N), which was evident from the hue and cry of party’s senior vice president Maryam Nawaz. She demanded NAB’s refusal to heed to her advice, can turn things from bad to worse. But the question is can she really attain what she wants? NAB remains unmoved. So does the administration. Maryam has been campaigning for removal of PTI government, since almost a year, but had hardly been successful. She saw her earlier campaign fritter away.
She then saw yet another chance coming her way with the formation of the Pakistan Democratic Movement, whose two mail pillars were Bilawal and Maulana Fazlur Rehman. One has almost retreated with the announcement that PPP executive committee after prolonged deliberations has opted for preserving its presence in the Parliament’s upper chamber, called the Senate. That means that PPP has been prevented by its principal adviser Asif Zardari to refrain from leaving the field open to Imran Khan.
Constitution and law experts since the beginning have been opposed to resignations from the national or provincial assemblies,. They were clear in the minds that it would leave the field open for electoral success to Pakistan Tehreek insaaf, and senate seats can easily be filled even if one of the four provincial assemblies remained intact and 82 national assembly members kept their seats intact. Zardari had advised his son to avoid going to the extreme. HE has now prevailed over the young macho man.
The dent in PDM ranks has begun to appear with cracks in Fazlur Rehman’s JUI (F), which now sees a parallel party appearing in the name of JUI-Pakistan. Its woes continued with the dilly dallying of BIlawal over resignation issue. Whether the PDM succeeds in galvanizing itself again in its meeting of party heds on January 2, will be keenly awaited. The stand taken by Peoples Party, the only opposition party to be in control of a province, must be admired, for it will leave Imran Khan to face challenges.
The challenge, though will be much smaller than had been anticipated earlier. Yet he will have to acknowledge that PPP has thrown its trump card. Maryam may not like it, for she obviously has been left in the lurch/ So has been Fazlur rehman, the principal schemer behind the formation of PDM. He telephones Nawaz Sharif soon after Bilawal’s media talk. What transpired was not known. But the political chess board now has become much more ticklish now than at any stage since the vituperative campaign launched against the government. Imran in opinion of many an expert sits much comfortably than before, but he has focus properly on bringing the prices of essential commodities down, and also improve his system of governance.

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